Ofsted Articles

It is reported that Labour's independent skills taskforce has concluded that making schools more directly responsible for pupil destination outcomes is the best way of reducing young people who are 'neet' (not in education, employment or training). This has some...

Tristram Hunt made a strong start in his new role as shadow secretary of state for education last weekend: a clear and passionate exchange on the Andrew Marr show (best line: ‘I’ve got a PhD from Cambridge. No one needs to tell me about rigour’) followed a frank...

—Stephen Twigg’s recent speech, No School Left Behind, can best be thought of as a kind of schooling ‘births, marriages and deaths’ column. The ‘deaths’ in question are those of the national curriculum as we have known it, and the free schools policy as it has been...

With the sharp increase in the number of academies, do local education authorities still have a role to play? Anthony Painter investigates Local education authorities have almost 200 statutory duties but lack purpose in the modern education landscape. The simple fact...